Plasmapheresis pay salary

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Hello all,

I have always been interested in becoming a dialysis nurse. Recently, a classmate of mine mentioned to me that his father performs plasmapheresis as an RN and made about 120,000$ last year. Is this correct or even in the ballpark? Sounded too good to be true. I am in Los Angeles by the way. Thank you so much for your time!

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Specializes in Nephrology, Dialysis, Plasmapheresis.
Hello all I have always been interested in becoming a dialysis nurse. Recently, a classmate of mine mentioned to me that his father performs plasmapheresis as an RN and made about 120,000$ last year. Is this correct or even in the ballpark? Sounded too good to be true. I am in Los Angeles by the way. Thank you so much for your time![/quote']

Sure could be true in California. He's probably on call a lot, gets call back pay, has crazy hours, and works some really long days. I met dialysis nurses in California that were making $180,000. But they worked 24 hour shifts often. Double time after 12 hours adds up at that rate.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

Time and a half after 8 hours too. I miss California.

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Specializes in Specialty Oncology Pharmacy.

Lots of on call and stress, but with mileage reimbursement, on call pay, hourly pay, and shift differential if I got called out, I was making near $66,000/year in Florida as an LPN.

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Specializes in Nephrology.

You can make a lot in plasmapheresis in the right environment. There are many many 6 figure acute dialysis nurses, but that lots of hours and call. Plasmapheresis can be very well compensated per hour.

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